Splitting-hammer.



M. F. WILLIAMS.

SPLITTING HAMMER.

APPLICATION FILED .AUG.4,1911.

1,081,96 Patented July 9, 1912.

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Specification of Letters Patent. P t t d jul g 1932,,

Application filed August 1', 1911. serial No. 642,300.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MILTON F. WILLIAMS, a. citizen. of the United States, residing at St. Louis, Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Splittingl l'ammers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which.-

Figure 1 is a View of the machine showing my improved hammer in position. 2 is a detailed side View of the hammer. Fig. 3 is a detailed edge view of the hammer.

My invention relates to a new and useful improvement in hammers for shredding machines, the .object being to construct a hammer which will have a. cutting or splitting edge at each side, whereby it can be 're-. versed, and also a cutting edge at its outer extremity. The hammer in question is designed particularly for splitting or shredding wood and other fibrous materials and is provided with a shank portion 1 having an opening in its inner end through which passes a pivot bolt 2 passing through openings in hammer supports 3 mounted on a rotating shaft 4. This cylinder of hammers is mounted in a shredding machine and the material to be operated on is fed into the machine to the action of said hammers which hammers strike the material shredding or reducing the same. The outer end of the hammer is widened, as shown in Fig. 2, by drawing out the'edges' by reducing the material at the inclined faces 1. These faces are formed on each edge of the hammer, and the widened edge thus produced tapers to a cutting point at the outer extremity of the hammer, as shown in Fig.

3. The outer edge or extremity of thehammer is drawn to a cutting edge 1 by forming the inclined beveled edges 1" and by drawing out the side edges of the hammer as before described, this outer cutting edge is made of greater length. It is this outer cutting edge which actsvupon the material entering the machine to disintegrate or shred it andbeing held out by centrifugal force, the hammer delivers a cutting blow at high speed which will shred or reduce formed thereon at one extremity a cutting edge, and also having formed thereon lat eral cleaving edges, said hammer being provided at its other extremity with a means for attachment.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature in the presence of two witnesses, this 2nd day'of August, 1911.

MILTON F. WILLIAMS.

Witnesses:

F. R. CORNWALL, LILY Posr. 

